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Good news, the Crusaders survived the 2011 Men’s Health Urbanathlon Chicago.
Congratulations to everyone who finished, especially friends and family of the Crusaders. It was a fun day.
After months of training it all came down to 9.75 miles (in our retellings, it will be 10) and a whole lot of obstacles (of the object and human variety…you know who you are).
To say the very least, it was an experience that neither of us will forget any time soon.
It was at once everything and nothing we expected, and we learned more than a thing or two about ourselves, our fellow competitors, and the laws of physics.
Lesson’s Learned:
- Running, not as tough as we previously thought. When running is “resting” you’re in okay shape.
- It’s always good to have a game plan. Even when doing something as simple as climbing over a tractor tire (thank you to our fellow female competitors who helped us over).
- Guys make excellent step stools (thank you to all the kind gentlemen who assisted us).
- Chivalry is not dead. Although, we are still questioning it’s motives.
- Saying you, “busted your shin open while hurtling the police barricades,” sounds really bad out of context.
- Mud is disgusting, but it sure makes you look bad ass.
- Stairs may have a bad wrap, but we’d take a couple of flights over a stadium’s worth of ramps any day.
- Pulling off a motivational speech while hanging from monkey bars takes tact, patience, and arms that you can’t feel anymore.
- Laughter makes even the toughest obstacles easier to climb.
- There’s more than one way to get over an eight foot wall (don’t ask how, just know that we did).
Oh, and one more lesson (learned after the fact):
11. Just because you didn’t know it existed, doesn’t mean it won’t be sore the next day.
On that note, it seems to be just about time for some quiet, stationary reflection. Emphasis on the stationary.
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…just for fun:
Same idea…minus the swords, stealing, magic carpet and monkey (it would have been even more fun with a monkey)-
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